Composition 10 in Black and White (Pier and Ocean)
1915 · Oil on canvas · Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Piet Mondrian (1872–1944)
- Year
- 1915
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 85.8 × 108.4 cm
- Collection
- Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
- Movement
- De Stijl
Short black horizontal and vertical dashes, some crossing to form plus signs, are scattered across a pale ground and gathered into a loose oval, denser in some places and sparser in others, with no colour at all. A few longer verticals near the bottom centre suggest a pier running out into the sea, while the rest reads as the rhythm of waves under a night sky. Mondrian painted it in 1915 in the Netherlands, where the First World War had kept him, from drawings made at the seaside resorts of Domburg and Scheveningen. It was his first painting in black and white only and is regarded as a turning point on his way to pure abstraction. Theo van Doesburg saw it exhibited that year and sought Mondrian out, the start of the partnership that led to De Stijl. It is in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Black dashes and crosses on a pale ground gathered into a soft oval, like waves around a pier, for a bedroom, study or coastal living room at 16×24 in black. A white, chalk or pale grey wall; it pairs with Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a De Stijl painting
- Era
- 20th century (1915)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cornflower blue, cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, study or library, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
